Here’s a question for academics: Would you like to write a book that is reviewed everywhere, introduces a technical term into popular culture, and is still remembered passionately more than two decades after it comes out? The answer, I suppose, would be “yes”. But this is one of those occasions when, if a genie granted you these three wishes, you had better be on your guard. For all those things are true of The Bell Curve, written in 1994 by two academics and still a subject of heated discussion today.
In September 1994, America was a divided country, perhaps
In September 1994, America was a divided country, perhaps
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